The Ice Sculptures: A Novel of Hollywood

By Michael D. Craig

Hollywood action hero Timothy Race is the most popular and masculine film star around. But Tim is living the ultimate showbiz lie; he's a gay man posing as America's finest example of heterosexuality.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560234814
• ISBN13: 9781560234814
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Harrington Park Pr
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Great first 178 pages, but...

A bright, breezy gay novel with a surprisingly homophobic ending, The Ice Sculptures tells the story of Tim Race, a closeted gay Hollywood superstar trying to rebuild his life after the breakdown of his relationship with his agent and lover of eleven years. We follow Tim through the Nineties as he gradually inches out of the closet and learns to love again through his relationship with a beautiful Mexican street boy, Jaime...only to "go straight" in the last few pages and marry his fag hag/beard! Although the vast majority of the novel is persuasive and dynamic, Tim's sudden "conversion" to heterosexuality at the book's end is clumsily written ("They had tested the waters before, but Tim had found the temperature too cold for his liking. This time, however, the temperature was perfect...") and jars with the rest of the book, in which he shows no hint of bisexual leanings or attraction to women, and is liable to leave many readers feeling cheated. Raina's switch from loyal friend to manipulative harpy (who conveniently disposes of Jaime by sending him pictures of Tim "making out" with his co-star) is also unconvincing. Read the first 178 pages. But stop there.

"LIBERALLY LACED WITH SEX AND SIN"

"LIBERALLY LACED WITH SEX AND SIN, this novel takes us into the world of Hollywood, where being open and gay can destroy an actor's career-but being closeted and gay can destroy his heart. The author takes us behind the scenes of Hollywood sets, Hollywood homes, and Hollywood sex with an insider's authority and knowledge. And just as in real life, Michael Craig deftly shows us that coming out of the closet can have its price." Reviewed By: Jonathan Cohen, Author of Bear Like Me

"FAST-PACED AND EASY TO READ"

"FAST-PACED AND EASY TO READ, The Ice Sculptures reconstitutes the world in which movie studios covered up for the indiscretions of stars. It provides an escape from the tell-all celebrity world of today to a Jacqueline Susann-like world of dark secrets and designer labels-but with twenty-first century sex." Reviewed By: Edmund Miller, PhD, Author of Night Times

Valley of the Gays

Finally! Someone has the courage to write a gay version of Jacqueline Susann's way-camp classic Valley of the Dolls! The Ice Sculptures: A Novel of Hollywood is a breezy, name-dropping, sex-filled soon-to-be-cult classic featuring closeted gay superstar actor Timothy Race and his rise to fame. Not above using the proverbial casting couch, the novel follows Tim from his humble Texas oil-field roots through his rise to superstardom in Tinseltown. Always by his side are close friends Raina Hawthorne, who is totally obsessed with Tim, his agent/boyfriend David and old-bitty Ruth Borstein, also an agent. Through fourteen sex and drama-filled years, The Ice Sculptures chronicles Tim's life, and what a life it is! There's lots of globe-trotting, scenery-chewing, back-stabbing and pill popping. Then Tim meets Jaime, a young, beautiful illegal immigrant/prostitute amidst the scenic surroundings of San Diego's Balboa Park while on the lam from a drug treatment clinic. Lust (and love) follows suit, but what impact will this relationship have on Tim's storybook Hollywood career? You'll have loads of fun with the Guess Which Superstar I'm Talking About game while gobbling up this confectionery of a roman a clef. Ol' Jackie Susann would have been proud. And the five-hankee conclusion will leave you breathless. What a rush!

A Gay Valley of the Dolls!

What must a closeted, gay actor do to achieve stardom—and to keep his secret from destroying his career? To the entire world, Timothy Race is the most popular and masculine film star around. Graced with one of the most beautiful faces and bodies in Hollywood, he's been the undisputed King of the Box Office since making his theatrical debut. On the arm of his longtime friend—the stunning, acclaimed actress Raina Hawthorne—he appears to have it all. Things aren't always as they seem however, especially in the land of fantasy and the factory of dreams known as Hollywood. Heartbreak, drugs, and deception The truth is, Tim is living the ultimate showbiz lie; he's a gay man posing as America's finest example of heterosexuality. Overcome by insecurities about his career and devastated by the end of an eleven-year relationship with his agent and longtime lover, drugs seem like the perfect solution until his life begins to spiral out of control and he is forced into a drug treatment clinic by the film studio that practically owns his life.Finding love where you least expect it Determined to reclaim his life in his own way, Tim breaks out of rehab. He heads for San Diego, looking to score easy drugs and sex in the city's world famous Balboa Park. There, he meets Jaime, an illegal immigrant who has been reduced to turning tricks for older gay men just to survive. Jaime is beautiful and young, not yet hardened by street life. Tim sees something in Jaime's hypnotic and soulful eyes, something he believes has been missing from his own life. So begins a beautiful yet tragic love story, a story as touching as it is unforgettable. Can their relationship survive, a relationship that defies all logic and threatens to destroy the dazzling career that Tim has spent years of hard work building? Spanning fourteen years and four continents, The Ice Sculptures moves deftly from the Academy Awards to Tinseltown casting couches; from the set of a television soap opera to the teeming streets of Mexico City and the glamour of London and Manhattan; from a movie location deep in the Malaysian rainforest to a lavish and unexpected Hawaiian wedding. The Ice Sculptures, by best-selling author Michael D. Craig (The Totally Awesome 80s Pop Music Trivia Book and Who's That Girl? The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book) is the ultimate Hollywood saga, the one you were never supposed to read about!